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No. 343,510 v Patented June 8, 1886.

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I UNITED STATES PATENT Orrrcn.

. WILLIAM H. WELSH, OF YORK, PENNSYLVANIA.

MEDICAL SPOON.

PEBPECIFIO'AIION forming part of Letters Patent No.343,510, dated 311113 J Application filed April 3, 1886. Serial No. 197,732. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. WELSH, of York, in the county of York andState of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and usefnl Improvementsin Spoons; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and eX- act description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to spoons specially adapted for administeringmedicine, the object being to provide a combination-spoon adapted foruse either as a half tea spoon, a tea-spoon, or a tablespoon.

The invention consists in a spoon having a bowl divided by corrugationsor ribs into different spaces.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a plan view of a spoonembodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a section thereof in the line x as ofFig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a section on the line 2 2, Fig. I.

A is the handle of the spoon, and B the bowl. The latter is divided inthe process of 2 5 manufacture into three independent spaces, a, b, and0, by oval or elongated ridges O. The inner or central space, a, is madeof a size cor responding to a half tea-spoon, the next adjacent space,b, is sufficiently large, in connection with the space a,to equal thecapacity of a tea-spoon, and the outer space, 0, added to the twointerior spaces, gives the whole bowl B the capacity of a table-spoon.

The utility of my invention will be readily understood. When the doserequired is only a half tea-spoonful, the central space, a, only isfilled; when a tea-spoonful, the spaces a and b are both filled, andwhen a table-spoonful, all of the spaces are 'filled.

I of course do not limit myself to any particular material in themanufacture of myimprovement; but it will be found that glass,porcelain, or other vitreous material will be advantageous, as well asthe different metals, in view of the fact that said vitreous materialswill resist the corroding action of acids, and in using such materialthe spoons may be molded-without undue expense.

While I have described the different divisions of the spoon-bowl ascorresponding to a half tea-spoonful, a tea, and a table spoon,respectively, it will be apparent that I do not confine myself either tothe size or number of the spaces used.

I am aware that heretofore milk-cans and similar vessels have beenconstructed with divisions or difierent-sized compartments; but I makeno claim to such vessels.

I claim As an article of manufacture, a spoon having a bowl divided bycorrugations or ribs into different spaces, substantially as and for thepurpose described.

In testimony whereof I havesignedthis specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

W. H. WELSH.

'Witnesses:

GEORGE S. SCHMIDT, Enw CHAPIN.

